Quotes About Strength

who can say why these things happen on Thursday, when the same events might have gone unremarked on Tuesday?—they fought back. A dozen women turned into a hundred. A hundred into a thousand. The police retreated. The women shouted; some made placards. They understood their strength, all at once.

Roxy doesn't run from fights at school. . . . You've got to stomp them till they beg. You don't run.

Behind his back, he knows the women in the factory are observing the encounter with cold, dark eyes. There'll be no doubting him after this, there'll be no asking what he is; they'll know what he is when they see what he can do. He's not a man in women's clothing. He's one of them, as strong as them, as capable.

You can see it on the internet. Boys dressing as girls to seem more powerful. Girls dressing as boys to shake off the meaning of the power, or to leap on the unsuspecting, wolf in sheep's clothing.

If you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

She can't afford to afford to look weak, not at a time like this.

When a multitude speak with one voice, that is strength and that is power

When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised.

She could run. There's her dad's voice in her head, saying, Take care of yourself, sweetie. And there's her mon's voice in her head, saying, You're a hero, act like it.

Cuando una multitud habla con una sola voz, eso es fuerza y poder

The voice says: There is a need for a prophet in the land. Allie thinks, but who? The voice says: Just try it on the size, honey. Remember, if you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

The younger women can wake it up in the older ones; but from now on all women will have it.

The shape of power is always the same; it is the shape of a tree.

It's enough for her to know, sitting in there in the dark, that if she really wanted to she could get out. The knowledge is as good as freedom.

All girls born from now on will have the power—all of them. And they'll keep it throughout life, just like the older women do if it's woken up in them. It's too late now to try to cure it; we need new ideas.

she could kill them in three moves before they stirred in their comfortably padded chairs. It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

Nothing worse has happened to him than to anyone. There is no reason for him to be afraid, no more reason than any other man.

Screaming as they take a hit. Laughing as they deliver one.

Remember, if you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

People are allowed to be weak.

It's a sort of pride to her that she watched the whole thing without wincing or looking away or carrying on.

So I went walking, like the independent woman I am.

There can always be healing, even if there is no cure.